﻿GENERAL INDEX. 



865 



Parts of a bird, 22. 



Parus caeruleus, anecdote of its 



building in a pump, 179. 

 Parus caudatus, nest of, 181.: 

 Parus pendulinus, 183. 

 Penguins, habits of, 161. 

 Pensile nests, 179. 

 Perching order, general remarks 



on, 336. 



Perching foot, variations of, 128. 

 131. 



Perspicilla, eyes of, 30. 



Plantain.eater, violet, 62. 66. 151. 



Ploceus icterocephalus Sw., de- 

 scribed, with its nest, 189. 



Pogonias, bristles of, 55. 



Polyborus, ground kites, 310. 



Pondicerry hawk, 306. 



Prehensile feet, 132. 



Preserving birds, directions for, 

 264. 



Prices of various costly works, 227. 

 Primary types of birds, 8. 

 Primary divisions of birds, 11. 

 Progress of ornithology, 193. 

 Pterodactylus, 4. 



Q. 



Quill feathers described, 81. 



R. 



Raptorial type, 9. 



Raptorial order, characters of, 279. 

 Rasorial type, 10. 



Representation, on the theory of, 

 320. 



Rhyncops niger, habits of, 72. 

 Rictal bristles of birds, 55. 



S. 



Scales, tarsal forms of, 114. 

 Scansores, the tribe of, 340. 

 Scansorial feet, 122. 133. 

 Scolopex and Mus, 17. 

 Scotiaptex, the long-tailed owls, 

 3*7. 



Shank, or tarsus, different forms of, 

 113. 



Shooting birds, directions for, 263. 

 Sight of birds, 43. 

 Smell of birds, 48. 

 Song of birds, 163. 

 Specimens, hints for preserving, 

 263. 



Spurs on rasorial birds, 155. 

 State of ornithological science, 195. 

 Strength of voice in birds, 171. 

 Strix flammea, the barn owl, 325. 



333. 



Strix Tengmalmi, its structure, 326. 

 Strigidse, the owls, 321. 

 Swallow, the song of, 167. 

 Surma, the hawk owls, 330. 

 Swimming feet, 159. 

 Sylvia sutoria, nest of, 187. 

 Synallaxis garrulus, nest of, 186. 

 Svndactile feet, 148. 

 Systems of Ornithology, 200. 202. 



T. 



Tachipetes, their habits, 162. 

 Tail, different forms of, 99. 

 Tamatia,the puff birds, 32. ' 

 Tarsus, or shank of birds, 113. 

 Tenuirostral type, 10. 

 Tenuirostres, the tribe of, 340. 

 Titmouse, blue, anecdote of, 180. 

 Toes, various structure of, 119. 

 Tongues of birds, 49. 

 Tricophorus, bristles of, 74. 

 Trochilus recurvirostris, 71. 

 Types, primary, of birds. 8. Uncer- 

 tain situation of, 319. 



V. 



Voice of birds, 163. 



Vultur of New Holland, 288. 



Vulturida?, the vultures, 280. 



W. 



Walking feet, 129. 

 Wing of birds, 25. 

 Wing feathers, 79. 

 Wing, the joints of, 79. 

 Writers, modern ornithologies 

 199. 



END OF THE FIRST VOLUME. 



